Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Installing HP ESXi Offline Bundle for VMware ESXi 4.1

If ESXi 4.1 has been implemented on a HP ProLiant Server using the general VMware build (as opposed to the HP build that can be obtained by Googling "download vmware esxi HP";) to install the HP ESXi Offline bundle - that can be downloaded from HP's website - to get storage information (and more) under the hardware status tab in the vSphere client; follow the procedure below:

1) Put the host into maintenance mode
2) Via the vSphere CLI, run this command from C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin